Crime at Bedtime

The Sam Sheppard case has been argued over for more than seventy years, and it has never been settled. In the small hours of the fourth of July, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard, four months pregnant, was beaten to death in her bedroom in the quiet lakeside suburb of Bay Village, Ohio. Her husband, Dr Sam Sheppard, said he had fought a bushy-haired intruder in the dark and been knocked unconscious. The police, the press and a jury did not believe him. His conviction would travel all the way to the United States Supreme Court and change the meaning of a fair trial, a second trial would set him free, the story is widely believed to have inspired The Fugitive, and decades later DNA would reopen the question all over again. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the Sam Sheppard case.
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In 1970, the body of a woman was found strangled and buried in a shallow grave. With no clues to follow, the case quickly went cold, leaving investigators with more questions than answers.

What no one knew then was that this was just the beginning of a terrifying reign of terror. This unsolved murder would later be linked to Samuel Little, a man who would become America's most prolific serial killer, confessing to over 90 murders across four decades.

In this episode of Crime at Bedtime, we uncover how Little evaded capture for so long, the lives he destroyed, and how justice finally caught up with him.
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A child who has never left Oklahoma suddenly remembers mansions, movie sets and a life in old Hollywood. He names streets, describes trips, and recalls a very specific death – all before researchers uncover the real man he claims he once was: Hollywood agent Marty Martyn. Was this an extraordinary coincidence, or a rare glimpse of reincarnation?
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In the early 2000s, Rudy Kurniawan was the toast of the wine world — pouring $20,000 vintages at elite tastings and selling millions in rare bottles. But when experts began spotting vintages that never existed, a global investigation exposed one of the most sophisticated wine frauds of all time. This is the story of charm, counterfeit corks, and a cellar built on deception.
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The murder of Rachel McLean sent a chill through Britain in 1991. Rachel, a nineteen-year-old Oxford University student, vanished from her home, and her boyfriend, John Tanner, wept in front of the cameras as he appealed for her safe return, even taking part in a police reconstruction of her final movements. But Rachel had never left. She was hidden beneath the floorboards of her own home, where Tanner had put her after he strangled her. This is the story of the performance that slowly unravelled, and the detectives who saw through the grieving boyfriend. On Crime at Bedtime, settle in, get comfortable, and let us tell you the story of the murder of Rachel McLean.
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